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You Can Now Read the US Constitution via the Bitcoin Blockchain
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Decrypt Editorial(06:31 PM UTC)
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In brief
- An anonymous Bitcoin user inscribed the text of the American Constitution on the Bitcoin blockchain.
- The act was possible as thanks to the OP_RETURN output field and last year's removal of a byte limit.
- The user paid around $83 in transaction fees to achieve the feat, though it's not yet known who inscribed the text.
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